Prima Facie: (15, 106 mins)
Rating: Four out of five stars
The timing is accidental yet impeccable. Prima Facie, a film about sex crimes and the legal process, arrives in cinemas in the week in which Russell Brand was sent down for ten-and-a-half years and allegations against David Walliams were made public. What a striking coalescence of art and life.
I didn’t see the one-woman West End production of the same title, by the Australian playwright Suzie Miller, in which Jodie Comer was said to have given a mesmerising performance, so I can’t make comparisons. My guess is that the film is considerably
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